The present study compares the thanking behavior across native speakers of Turkish and German and aims to discover similarities or differences based on the form and function of the respective realization strategies. The main focus of the research is to find out if each of the two cultures is oriented towards positive or negative politeness based on an analysis of expressions of thanks functioning as a speech act.
In the past, both the Turkish and the German language have been studied in terms of thanking behavior and politeness orientations, but little to no research has been conducted in comparing the languages in these aspects. It is hoped that the contrastive study at hand provides relevant results regarding differences in thanking behavior and politeness orientations between Turkish and German culture.
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Thanking and politeness
2.1.1 Defining the speech act of thanking
2.1.2 Positive and negative politeness
2.1.3 Positive and negative thanking
2.2 Cross-cultural comparison of politeness and speech act of thanking
3. Methodology
3.1 Instrument
3.2 Participants and situations
4. Results
4.1 Thanking expressions
4.2 Modifying thanks
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
7. References
8. Appendix
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